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Comments on: The cartel: at war with itself! (Even the Globe is shocked at Chass’s shoddy work) http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:35:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: overdone http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3268 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:13:58 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3268 Bravo, Seth. These two commentaries are great. Call a Chass a Chass, I say. Guy is so damn tiresome. The following almost made me spit out my coffee one morning. It's from one of Chass's anti-Sox screeds, from August 2, 2005 (you may recall his old-school pride in not owning a DVD player): "The Red Sox were wise holding on to Manny Ramirez. He might be a bad human being, but when bad human beings drive in 150 runs they are good players, and good players are what teams need to win." Now I'm biased, but aside from that column, have you ever heard anybody suggest that Manny Ramirez is "a bad human being"? Loopy, mercurial, oblivious, childlike, fickle, distracting, inscrutable, sure. (And some argued that he "quit on the team" a few months ago. Mucho bla bla bla.) But a bad human being? Manny's persona has always reminded me of other supremely talented stoners. Maybe Chass doesn't know any of those. A small thing: Not to get all copyedit on yo ass, but those bullet points above are a little confusing. The setup talks about people Chass quoted in his column, but the third bullet point starts with the word EDES. Then in the next point, if you hadn't read Edes's article, I'm not sure you'd know that the McCourt-Henry quote is from his story and not Chass's. (You can take the girl off the copy desk, but...). Cheers. Bravo, Seth. These two commentaries are great. Call a Chass a Chass, I say. Guy is so damn tiresome.

The following almost made me spit out my coffee one morning. It’s from one of Chass’s anti-Sox screeds, from August 2, 2005 (you may recall his old-school pride in not owning a DVD player): “The Red Sox were wise holding on to Manny Ramirez. He might be a bad human being, but when bad human beings drive in 150 runs they are good players, and good players are what teams need to win.”

Now I’m biased, but aside from that column, have you ever heard anybody suggest that Manny Ramirez is “a bad human being”? Loopy, mercurial, oblivious, childlike, fickle, distracting, inscrutable, sure. (And some argued that he “quit on the team” a few months ago. Mucho bla bla bla.) But a bad human being? Manny’s persona has always reminded me of other supremely talented stoners. Maybe Chass doesn’t know any of those.

A small thing: Not to get all copyedit on yo ass, but those bullet points above are a little confusing. The setup talks about people Chass quoted in his column, but the third bullet point starts with the word EDES. Then in the next point, if you hadn’t read Edes’s article, I’m not sure you’d know that the McCourt-Henry quote is from his story and not Chass’s. (You can take the girl off the copy desk, but…). Cheers.

]]> by: jthewes http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3258 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:51:53 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3258 This is all fine and good, but it's getting too serious and tense for me to handle. I'm loving the Hernia's winter meeting updates from last week. Anything with a random Dino Radja tie-in works for me. The last three postings are Sox relevant: http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/baseball/index.html This is all fine and good, but it’s getting too serious and tense for me to handle. I’m loving the Hernia’s winter meeting updates from last week. Anything with a random Dino Radja tie-in works for me. The last three postings are Sox relevant:

http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/baseball/index.html

]]> by: Mude http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3256 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:10:10 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/12/09/the-cartel-at-war-with-itself-even-the-globe-is-shocked-at-chasss-shoddy-work/#comment-3256 Excellent job, Seth. I know some of your readers have voiced their opposition to your Chass tracking, but I thoroughly enjoy it. And it's especially cool when you're the first one to call him out on something that others later pick up on. I just used some free SkypeOut to leave a message (from Amman, Jordan) for Barney Calame about Chass' irresponsible "journalism," citing both you and Edes. Hopefully the <i>Times</i> will do the right thing and put their deranged Great Uncle in a nursing home, instead of continuing to tolerate his dinner table comments about how nice so-and-so's tits are. He really is an embarassment. Excellent job, Seth. I know some of your readers have voiced their opposition to your Chass tracking, but I thoroughly enjoy it. And it’s especially cool when you’re the first one to call him out on something that others later pick up on.

I just used some free SkypeOut to leave a message (from Amman, Jordan) for Barney Calame about Chass’ irresponsible “journalism,” citing both you and Edes. Hopefully the Times will do the right thing and put their deranged Great Uncle in a nursing home, instead of continuing to tolerate his dinner table comments about how nice so-and-so’s tits are. He really is an embarassment.

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